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Rusty silvery, head darker, somewhat purplish. Scale edges on 

 side of body dark, bases brassy. Inside mouth and peritoneum 

 black. Large brownish blotch on membrane below preorbital. 

 Dorsal, anal and caudal dusky. Paired fins pale. Length 433 nmi. 

 (Jordan and Thompson.) 



West Australia, New South Wales, China. Formosa, Japan. 



GLAUCOSOMA SCAPULARE Macleay 



Glaucosoma scapulare (Ramsay) Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 5, 1881, p. 334. Port Jackson. — Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 281 

 (Sydney), p. 369 (Queensland). — Ogilby, Handb. of Sydney, 1898, p. 128. — 

 Stead, Fishes of Australia, 1906, p. 96 (Queensland, New South Wales, 

 West Australia). — McCulloch, Australian Zoologist, vol. 1, pt. 7, 1919. 

 p. 54, pi. 23, fig. 198 (New South Wales). 



Reganichthys magmficus Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 3, 1915, p. 123, 

 pi. 30. Thursday Island, Torres Straits; vol. 5, 1916. p. 182 (note). 



Depth 2%; head 2%. Snout 3% in head from snout tip; eye 41/2, 

 II/3 in snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % in eye 

 (description says nearly opposite hind e3^e edge), expansion equals 

 eye, length 2i/4 in head from snout tip ; teeth in jaws short, strong, 

 pointed, and little curved, biserial, outer upper and inner lower 

 larger ; small teeth on vomer and palatines, villiform teeth on tongue : 

 interorbital convex; preopercle serrated toward angle. Scales 50 in 

 lateral line, 11 above, 20 below. 



D. VIII, 11, eighth spine 3 in total head length, fourth ray 21/4; 

 A. III. 9, I, third spine 41/5, second ray 2^^ ; caudal I14, little emar- 

 nate ; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% ; pectoral 1% ; ventral 21/3. 



Uniform silvery, each scale with black spot, caused by black skin 

 showing through bases of scales. Length 508 mm. (Macleay.) 



Queensland, New South Wales, West Australia. 



GLAUCOSOMA FAUVELII Sauvage 



Glaiicosoma fauvelU Sauvage, Bull Soc. Philomath. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, 1881, 

 p. 104. Swatow, China. 



Depth 2% in total, body oval : head over 3, profile curved. Snout 

 shorter than eye ; eye 3 in head ; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye 

 edge; preopercle finely denticulate. 



Scales 60 in lateral line, 10 above, 22 below. Suprascapula not 

 evident. Head ail scaly. 



D. VIII, 11, rays not prolonged. A. Ill, 9, second spine shorter 

 than third. Caudal truncate. 



Yellowish gray with golden reflections. Above lateral line 3 brown 

 longitudinal lines, uppermost follows profile of back. Four bands 

 below lateral line. Fins uniform. Length 165 mm. (Sauvage.) 



China. 



